The Concept Browser - a New Form of Knowledge Management Tool

This paper discusses conceptual organization and exploration in the context of a Knowledge Manifold.1 It introduces a new kind of knowledge management tool called a concept browser and discusses a set of design principles for such browsers. These principles include a strict separation of context and content , contextual descriptions in terms of a collection of semantically visual context maps, which can be navigated by moving through contextual neighborhoods , presentation of the ontent components through context-dependent aspect-filters, and contextualization of content components that are themselves context maps.